Re: [gentoo-user] Small (as in footprint) window manager

[Dale]

Daniel Frey wrote:
> I've been trying to clean up my machines (pruning world file, etc) and
> am making progress.
>
> I ran into one issue, that being on my server (mythtv, file, etc) I am
> normally in text/ssh mode but occasionally I need X for something.
>
> Does anyone have suggestions for a small-footprint window manager (I
> have no need for a full desktop environment) as twm is just fugly and
> sometimes not intuitive. I also don't need a file manager as I use
> Midnight Commander which works well for my needs. This all stems from
> occasionally needing a gui for configuring mythtv or the ability to
> have two shells open side by side.
>
> I am thinking others have most likely had this problem at some point
> and have found something that's lightweight for this type of purpose.
>
> Dan
>
>


It's been a while but last I used Fluxbox, it was tiny.  If you just do
a basic install, it isn't much to it.  Of course, it isn't feature rich
either but it should run well on a low powered machine or consume very
little resources on a bigger system.  I've got two fluxbox packages
installed here.  Here is some info on them.


root@fireball / # equery s x11-themes/fluxbox-styles-fluxmod x11-wm/fluxbox
 * x11-themes/fluxbox-styles-fluxmod-20050128-r1
         Total files : 1539
         Total size  : 4.22 MiB

 * x11-wm/fluxbox-1.3.7-r3
         Total files : 339
         Total size  : 3.89 MiB
root@fireball / #


I'm not sure the top one is needed.  I think I installed it so I could
tweak a few things.  At one point, I thought about switching, back when
KDE was a disaster. 

I'm sure others will have ideas but you may want to check into Fluxbos. 
Install time is pretty short.  If you don't like it, just unmerge it.  I
keep it installed here just in case a KDE update goes sideways. 

Dale

:-)  :-)